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Returning to Inter Access

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Last week I have returned to my old employer Inter Access (IA). I had a rather short career at Getronics PinkRoccade (GPR). It was not what I expected to be at GPR, but I was not entirely comfortable in the situation I ended up. Well that can happen and so I returned to IA, where they gave a warm welcome back. Today I participated in their new spring campaign for recruitment of new future employees. I did a commercial shot together with Bettina Witteveen and Yuri Versluis. It was exciting and I was but nervous too. I must say I have great admiration now for who stand before camera’s like actors, interviewers and so. It is hard to perform in front of camera’s, but we pulled it off. I started working again for some clients of IA, one concerning an implementation of an ESB and one consulting and advising on BizTalk solutions. So I instantly started working again doing interesting stuff. Now I am preparing to go on a two week vacation to Como Italy together with my family. After this vaca

Exerimenting with BizTalk Services

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Last year during SOA and BPM Conference I heard about BizTalk Services during my visit there . Justin Smith did an introduction about it. Later during LEAP 2008 in January Clemens Vasters did a talk about the same subject. I just finished an article for a Dutch magazine called Software Release Magazine and I experimented with some samples from the SDK. Before I could do that I installed IE 7 on my new Dell Laptop from Getronics together with latest version of the SDK found at http://labs.biztalk.net/ . Then I installed Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition I received during the launch party from Microsoft (HerOmlympics). Having everything setup I took the EchoSample from the SDK and had to convert first before I could give it a try. So I executed the service and stumbled on the following error message a System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorException: {"Unrecognized element 'relayBinding'. (C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft BizTalk Services SDK\\Samples\\Communication\\GettingS